Speaker

Flora Karagianni has studied History and Archaeology in the Department of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she continued her postgraduate studies (MA and PhD) on Byzantine Archaeology and Art. Later on, she took  diploma of Theology from the Theological School of the same University. Since 1995 she has been working in the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, where she serves as General Director in Museum of Byzantine Culture as well as Director in the European Centre for Byzantine and Postbyzantine Monuments. She has given courses on Byzantine Art and Archaeology in the International Hellenic University, in the University of Thessaly, in the Technological Institute of Larissa and in the School of Guides. She has been supervised projects of restoration of byzantine and postbyzantine monuments, movable and immovable, in Thessaloniki as well as abroad (Albania, North Macedonia, Turkey, Jordan ect). In her scientific interests are included topics in the field of byzantine architecture, art and iconography. She has written two books, she has edited many others, she has participated in many international and Hellenic conferences, she has published more than 50 studies and she has given lectures in Greece and abroad on byzantine archaeology and art. She has particularly undertaken the scientific organization of conferences and exhibitions on several Byzantinological topics in Greece and abroad.